Improvement in bottle-stoppers



A. P. METZ. Bottle-Stopper.

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'NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALANSON F. DIETZ, OF GUILDEBLAND CENTRE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE-STOPPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 200,991, dated March 5,1878; application led August 23,1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALANsoN F. DIETZ, of Guilderland Centre, in thecounty of Albany and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Bottle-Stoppers for Soda-Water or other effervescingliquids, Which improvement is fully set forth in the f ollowingspeciication and accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure l is a view ofmy invention as applied to a mineral-Water bottle. Fig. 2 is a centralvertical section of the same; and'Fig. 3, a detail vievsr of the cap andsleeve, with beads b b to keep the sleeve in place.

The object of my invention is to secure the cork or stopper to thebottle after it is lled.

My invention consists of a metal cap, C, of

I a diameter a little larger than that of the bottle upon which it isproposed to use it, provided With a band or sleeve, B, in combinationwith hooks, hinged at their lower ends to the neck of the bottle, bothso constructed and arranged as to adapt themselves to the variations insize of the bottles or the corks, or both, as found in actual practice.

B is the bottle; G, the cap, which is cylindrical, and closed at oneend. At two opposite sides it has a long rectangular slot, s, extendingnearly from top to bottom, as shown in Fig. 2, and on each side of saidlong slot are notches or side slots s. (Shown in Fig. l.) Said slots ss' are for the reception of the heads of hooks II.

Fitting loosely upon the cylindrical portion of cap C is a band orsleeve, B, provided at two diametricallybpposite points withsemiquadrangular openings, the oblique side of which is indented, asshown at D D in Fig. l.

Sleeve B is held in place upon cap C by means of projecting rim c at thetop, and a similar, but smaller, one at the bottom; or it may be held inplace by swaging a single bead upon one or both ends of the sleeve andcorresponding ones upon the cap, as shown at b b in Fig. 3, or in anyother well-known manner.

H is the hook, the body or shank being straight, and need not be verylarge. The

bottom part of the hook is hinged to a support, A, Which is secured tothe bottle-neck by a metal band, in such a manner as to hold the hookalways at the same distance from the top of the bottle-neck.

The top portion of hook H is depressed be- 10W the line of the back ofthe hook, as shown at a, Fig. 2, so that, when in the position shown inFig. 2, one of the indentations D D of sleeve B may pass freely over thetop part of the hook and prevent it from disengagement With cap O.

It will be seen from the above that to use my invention the hooks H arefirst secured by means of a metal band around the neck of the bottle,and having a cap of suitable diameter for the bottle. We may now proceedto lill the bottle with any of the eft'ervescing liqnidssuch as sodawater, mineral Waters, champagne, or any of the aerated tonic beers ormedicinal preparations.

The bottle may be filled and corked either by hand or machine, and assoon as corked the cap C is applied over the top of the cork, presseddown upon it, and the hooks H turned up to engagement in one of thenotches s', and then the sleeve B is turned around until one of itsedges D D passes over the top portion of hook H, as shown in Figs. l and2. When in this position the cork cannot iy out or be extracted from thebottle.

Whether the corks all lit to just the same depth in the bottle or atvarious depths is immaterial, as the notches s s and sleeve B willengage with hook H at various points, thus producing a useful device forthe purposes herein mentioned.

Having clearly described my invention and its mode of operation, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The cap G, provided with slots s s and band or sleeve B, in combinationwith hooks H and supports A, combined and arranged on a bottle, tooperate as herein shown.

ALANSON F. DIETZ.

Witnesses:

FREDK. KERNHoLTs, HIRAM Gniees.

